Malls weren't just a place to shop, they were a social place to meet friends.

@user-zu3md5qz8y

5 ай бұрын

go visit the Phillippines

@zeal21

5 ай бұрын

Literally we out here in Asia really visit malls and places to eat or enjoy like picnic instead of buying stuff

@bupendrakumaran4054

5 ай бұрын

In Asia, we would go to malls just to hangout with friends and I have never seen a mall being empty unless it is abandoned

@commentator2.0

5 ай бұрын

I hang out with my friends online at the virtual mall. It’s really cool

@zeal21

5 ай бұрын

@@commentator2.0 bruv 😐

I like shopping in person, especially for clothes and gifts for loved ones.

@RandalWilliams-rm6hf

5 ай бұрын

It's a shame that malls aren't popular and everyone just wants to shop online😢

@NoOneHere2Day

5 ай бұрын

I too enjoy it and you get to socialize. I actually met 2 of my husbands at the mall.

@mytruecrimelibrary

5 ай бұрын

@@RandalWilliams-rm6hf the one in my town is doing pretty good still, there aren't that many empty storefronts.

@User_92020

5 ай бұрын

I get everything from Amazon. Everything from pen, ice cream, TV. 🖊 🍦 📺

@_Just_Another_Guy

5 ай бұрын

One advantage of shopping in person is you can determine the quality of the product you're buying instead of looking at a picture. Especially for clothes. Some clothes delivery comes with hidden damages or defects (holes, loose seams, unfinished threads, etc.) Plus with buying clothes in-person, you can often try it on physically (unless it's in a package or underwear).

It's really sad to see this especially since malls were the place to be back in the day. You could shop, eat and socialize all under one roof. E-commerce really changed the shopping landscape and COVID made it permanent.

@retroguy9494

5 ай бұрын

Yea but that was back in the 80's and 90's.

As someone who works as a vendor in the malls every holiday season, malls in 2022 did amazing. Last year, it was horrendously bad. Our sales numbers were down in the entire region in all the malls. A lot of the mall staff higher ups believe malls will probably be gone within 10 years.

You can thank Amazon and COVID for this.

@DuraStop

5 ай бұрын

and china

@joet7136

5 ай бұрын

Malls were dying long before covid but yeah, the internet pretty much made malls vulnerable.

@MikeG82

5 ай бұрын

my mall closed because Jamal and Tyrone kept causing trouble, so everybody else stopped going

@ctaylor8003

5 ай бұрын

@@MikeG82 Nobody cares about your furry alter egos

@yuvalhezkiya8934

5 ай бұрын

@@MikeG82

Malls aren't the same anymore! During my younger years, I really enjoyed going to the mall to buy clothes, grab a bite to eat, & go to the movies! Plus, I absolutely enjoyed visiting the bookstores & record stores!

@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I miss the 1990's so much 😢

@asimoovandreas2669

5 ай бұрын

​@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingForYeah. The 90s were a much better time, especially to cold approach, but it's getting tough to do that nowadays, since everybody is so vary of everything and scared to socialize.

@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor

5 ай бұрын

@@asimoovandreas2669 yeah and the climate agenda is killing everything too

@KevinRichards-rk3gp

5 ай бұрын

The internet is what killed most of the malls because nowadays, most people shop online instead of going out to malls. Not to forget Amazon became popular too.

@tarabooartarmy3654

5 ай бұрын

It was the 80s for me, but it’s not the same anymore. So many people have bad attitudes these days. It’s not fun anymore.

Ironically, even back to the future couldn’t of predicted, that malls would be obsolete

Zombie apocalypse: ❌️ Backrooms: ✅️

@hamsammich2628

5 ай бұрын

Bro is going to need to get the squad down there and start searching for any noclips

@jasonp364

4 ай бұрын

The Oldest View: Kane Pixels

@battleonfan1

3 ай бұрын

Cringe

I hope all malls don’t close down. I love going to the mall 😢

@SonyEnthusiast

5 ай бұрын

Me too

@TRUESHADOWD

5 ай бұрын

Not enough apparently 😂

@FDR-ww6xz

5 ай бұрын

Teenager

@User_92020

5 ай бұрын

Go more often 😆

@valestivale4711

5 ай бұрын

​@@FDR-ww6xzgay old man

It’s actually quite sad to see what's happened to malls across the country. Malls used to be such vibrant and bustling places where people would gather, shop and socialize.

@hphan7549

5 ай бұрын

Now scared shtlss everytime going to a mall, fkg looking around going away and back to the car 🥴 fkg sweaty nervous 🙏🙏🙏 Fkg enough said 🥹🙏🙏🙏

@guyfawkesuThe1

5 ай бұрын

JC Penny's is still in business because a big mall owner wants to keep traffic in their malls! Otherwise, JC Penny's would have went out of business several years ago!

@dollyl5596

5 ай бұрын

In my country they’re still packing with people, reason for that is because of the aircon😂

@58twright

5 ай бұрын

regular malls were big during the 80s, 90s & early 2000s now its plazas or online shopping

@sergiocable

5 ай бұрын

Still does in my town, I’m glad we aren’t victims of cyber world completely.

What they need to do is add popular stores young people frequently shop at. Nobody will order online to wait a few days to get their items when they can drive to the nearest mall and pick up the same item in 15 minutes. But the thing is these people don’t adapt to change and don’t competitively compete against online shopping.

@davidjym

5 ай бұрын

young people don't buy anything

@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj

13 күн бұрын

Or people can order online and pick up at the mall.

Its such a shame the malls arent what they use to be. Every holiday season i would just go to the mall with my parents and family then as I grew older i went with friends or a gf and just walk around while holiday music was playing. Sales were everywhere and people were so much nicer. No stress, no worries, just having a good time and enjoying life. What i wouldn't give to go back to those days.😢

@davidjym

5 ай бұрын

yes, I don't care what anyone says, the good old days were better !!! now everyone just stays at home and don't socialize anymore :(

@tomboyjessie1352

5 ай бұрын

​@@davidjymNot everyone's like that, I still see people going to malls and socializing.

@davidjym

5 ай бұрын

@@tomboyjessie1352 true, but the percentage is shifting

@retroguy9494

5 ай бұрын

Wasn't it awesome? I remember that back in the 80's and 90's.

As someone who loves the Dan Bell’s Dead Malls Series, It’s so sad to see malls just left to rot. Like turn them into indoor apartments or something. Have food courts re-open so that the people living in the inside can chill knowing they can just walk without worry of being in traffic or getting out in nasty weather

@honeybeebadlands2077

5 ай бұрын

iirc your suggestion is what malls were intended to be: housing space with separate amenities (stores, fountains, parks, etc) all indoors or partly in/outdoors in a walkable area. i wish that didnt get lost.

@rainnmoon114

5 ай бұрын

This is a fantastic idea.

@annien.1727

5 ай бұрын

That sounds like a brilliant idea.

@cassidylopez671

5 ай бұрын

You can find living communities like this in Europe I believe. I’ve never been but heard & seen of them. My husband & I want to move there one day ! lol

@Melissa0774

5 ай бұрын

They actually have one of those in Boston MA. It was made from one of the oldest, if not the oldest indoor mall in the U.S.

As a teenager, I miss the days my mom used to take me to the mall when I was little. Now the one we always used to go to is dead pretty much. Barely any stores plus crime so hardly anyone goes there anymore.

@icespeaker81

5 ай бұрын

We were robbed

@Randomdude1979

5 ай бұрын

​@@icespeaker81robbed of time

@joeisthecat8278

5 ай бұрын

I'd say the same. Thankfully this one mall I go to is still thriving, I'm unsure how long but I hope it stays like this for at least the rest of my life

@romancetips365

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I got robbed too last time I went to the mall. Which is why I stopped going. Sad too because I really used to love it. Also I do think they'd get more customers if they had mobility scooters. My mom stopped going because she can't walk that much with her knee and back problems and she needs a scooter to get around in big shops.

@bobby1970

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I really miss the good old days. A lot of great memories of when I was a teenager. I was only 16 in 1986.

Same reason why rental places like videos stores dont exist anymore, and why people hardly go to movie theaters. Cause social media ruined everything.

@retroguy9494

5 ай бұрын

Believe it or not, there were NO video stores in the malls near me. Those were located in 'strip malls' back in the day. I don't understand why people don't go to the movie theaters anymore though (apart from the ridiculous price). Is streaming on your computer or home television REALLY as good as the big screen and awesome sound system in the theaters?

Thanks for this 👍👍👍👌

You can also thank the owner of the mall. Lots of retailers say these owners really jack up the prices for rent. Its a shame. Im an 80s kid and this was the best way to socialize & get out of the house. Miss those days.

@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I was born in the 80's too and I'm missing the 90's so much. Tbh I'm not American and have never been to the US but one of the things that used to make me wish to visit the US as a tourist was precisely your immense malls.

@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj

5 ай бұрын

Me too and I hope malls make a comeback and malls should be more than just shopping. It is just great to get out and socialize.

@Methequeen

5 ай бұрын

This

@akunmapkah586

5 ай бұрын

​@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fjonly way mall came back is if all online shop banned/die/ban e money

@pppaaattt4671

5 ай бұрын

The mall near me has little to no customers. The elevators aren’t even working anymore. 😮😮😮 I go to walk some times, sad.

It depends on the location as well. The Puente Hills mall, which was shown in the clip, is competing against nearby malls such as Westfield Santa Anita and West Covina. The Santa Anita one recently opened a 99 Ranch Market and is packed on the weekends.

@musk-eteer9898

5 ай бұрын

i love santa anita mall

@8andj

5 ай бұрын

Thanks

@tuandang2947

5 ай бұрын

Competing? It's been dead for over two decades 💀

@hernandez15man

5 ай бұрын

Ya I just went there lol

@boomscholock

5 ай бұрын

Sawgrass Mills in Ft Lauderdale near where I live is also supremely packed, it’s also malls that offer a lot more than just clothing

i was utterly surprised to see my local mall on this channel. going here as a kid used to be everything, so many attractions at every corner. now it’s just spooky

I like how they're finally covering issues that's been quite obvious for the last 20 years.

Malls have been dying for more than 15 years now. More people shop online or go to Walmart or Target. This is nothing new

@lucasread1743

5 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@XandieFireman

5 ай бұрын

Only in the US

@KatieHuni

5 ай бұрын

Fax, I went to a mall before and it wasn’t packed at all, there was some people, but the mall was still not packed

@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor

5 ай бұрын

​@@XandieFireman no, in Europe this is happening too 😢

@easfancalifornia1787

5 ай бұрын

My local mall has target in Glendale so at least it’s still busy for now

In the late 80', early 90's, Thursday and Friday evening, all day Saturday. The mall was thee place to hang out. Hanging out with friends, people watching, trying to chat up girls. Good times.

@modickens1272

5 ай бұрын

And beating the meat to fredericks of Hollywood catalogs and JC penny swimsuit section, and star search spokesmodels

@retroguy9494

5 ай бұрын

How well I remember.................

Makes me thankful that my nearby mall is still thriving, and friends still chill out over there

Buddy, i grew up in the slums of Cleveland, Ohio. Ive been seeing this site since 2008. Now in Atlanta and that mall NEVER sleeps.

Two keys to making malls successful in 2024: 1) services/experiences over retail (more bowling alleys, bars and hair salons, less expensive stores) and 2) high-density housing MUST be developed on-site (built-in customers). The latter is how it works overseas in places like Hong Kong.

@leonardoluc6362

5 ай бұрын

Amsterdam shopping is hot but no malls, little shops, family shops, diversity shops in every street, hardly any cars. No Walmarts or Costcos to drive to, just walk, take your bicycle or public transport the best in the World. Ever been to the 9 streets in Amsterdam this is the most fun you ever have. Than one big store in City center called the Bijenkorf omg every high end brand is for sale, across the Royal Palace, location, location. + a top location the P.C. Hooftstraat only Worlds top brands, again no parking to speak of but booming.

@michaelpowell9164

5 ай бұрын

Nope The answer is keep the riff raff out. But thats racist! Still the truth.

@yosutzuhruoj

5 ай бұрын

@@leonardoluc6362 Thanks bro, you made me not want to go to NL.

@bettagems9209

5 ай бұрын

@@leonardoluc6362 yes I remenber when I lived in Germany it's like that, very pleasant & fun & safe. Miss that.

@DUCKY2018

5 ай бұрын

Id 100% live in a apartment connected to a mall

The high prices dont help.

@bracebrooks967

5 ай бұрын

You're right about that. That's actually why I rarely ever go to malls anymore. It's not because of online shopping in my case.

@Randomdude1979

5 ай бұрын

I remember the last time I went to my mall, I saw pants that costed $99.99. thought I was gonna have a heartattack.

@DY2727

5 ай бұрын

Even a t-shirt that you can find at ross for 5$ is like 30$ at hot topic spencers or zoomies

@LoneStarRay

5 ай бұрын

This is the real answer, if they lowered their prices more people would go

For all my South FL people know Dadeland Mall, Dolphin Mall, and The Falls would never die out. They’re packed literally everyday lol

This makes me want to go to our nearby mall. I remember I wasn’t a fan of it when I was a kid and would only go there for the movie theater that was inside. But now that I’m older…I just wanna walk around, look at everything, buy some stuff, enjoy the scenery

Malls back then were places to spend time with friends. We enjoy walking around talking and checking things out together although we don't buy much

@KevinRichards-rk3gp

5 ай бұрын

Good times. Those were the days😎

@yashny

5 ай бұрын

@@KevinRichards-rk3gp yes.. good old days 🙂

@usercs_2682

5 ай бұрын

Today people can spend their whole day on a phone. The world is different back then

@skycloud4802

5 ай бұрын

Arcades and cinemas gone.

@KevinRichards-rk3gp

5 ай бұрын

@@skycloud4802 yep Xboxes, PSs, & games on phones killed the arcades just like Netflix & Redbox killed the video stores.

going outside is dangerous. too many shootings and theft. I stay in my apartment forever.

@vegangainsfather2877

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like a fun life you have

@Rain-sv8eh

5 ай бұрын

You must be real fun at parties

@xerilaun

5 ай бұрын

username checks out

@amiaw12

5 ай бұрын

Aren't ya lonely

@defendingthefaith.7889

5 ай бұрын

You can’t live in fear.

I'm so glad that our mall is busy all the time. I love going there when I can and my kids love it too.

Yeah the mall I used to go to closed in 2019. But I still went to it in like 2017 but it was like the quietest and most emptiest place ever.

my mall is still packed in my area! many kids and families still go to my mall and it’s a good sight because many like shopping in person!

@bobloblaw2958

5 ай бұрын

The average experience for people in the mall is looking, but not buying, then lunch at the food court.

@StockTurboN20

5 ай бұрын

@@bobloblaw2958that’s why it’s fun

@asmita2318

5 ай бұрын

Same. I just went to mall few days ago.

@swailjaffari4067

5 ай бұрын

yeah two in my area still gets lots of shoppers especially during the holiday season

@maeversailles4609

5 ай бұрын

@@bobloblaw2958 i know everything is expensive nowadays but i see some people buying stuff now and then due to sales that they have!!!

Online shopping is 1 factor, but the other Big factor is the rampant theft & shoplifting at retail stores, that’s scaring lot of retailers & shoppers away…

@Entername-md1ev

5 ай бұрын

I have to disagree, crime used to be so much worse back in the 70s/80s/90s when malls were at their peak. Just look at the stats

@hphan7549

5 ай бұрын

Watch out, lawsuits and judgments Scared shtlss I wouldn't say that 🥴🙏🙏🙏

@TidePodsRFood

5 ай бұрын

Crime is down, not up. It *feels* worse than it is because everybody has an HD camera in their pocket. Also, a lot of this retail theft isn't shoplifting, it's insiding.

@TheRealCatof

5 ай бұрын

There's no Rampant shoplifting. That's fake news that stores made up to justify raising prices.

@whatsthisaboveme6064

5 ай бұрын

These people. You can get fired for trying to stop someone from robbing your store. I say theft has gotten really bad. My nearest target was shut down because of that and everything in walmart is getting locked up

I would go to the mall every weekend to play at the arcade from 2004-2007, a few years before everybody became phone dependent. Good times 😌

Cool will have to go explore some of the abandoned malls

@r.a.6459

5 ай бұрын

Exploring with... Josh might have to come here

The mall close to my home is packed, all the time. However, the owners were smart because they built an entire outdoor area of restaurants, theater, entertainment and a astroturf “grassy” area for families to play or watch an outdoor movie (free) on the big screen. Attached to the old mall, it has truly brought the crowds as the place to be reminiscent of the 80’s.

@lyetaherb4703

5 ай бұрын

NICE‼️😁😁😁

@alisiam7977

5 ай бұрын

Baybrook mall ?

@nameprivate2194

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like I wish I lived near you, and that, yes.

Its not just online shopping that caused a decline in malls, but also rise in thefts & gun violence makes people avoid enclosed spaces. My local mall in NJ had several incidents occurring mostly during the holidays & one of them was a bomb scare. Thieves tried using is as a distraction to rob a Macy's.

@nguyeennn7464

5 ай бұрын

Only in the US 😅

@Entername-md1ev

5 ай бұрын

You realize crime and gun crime used to be worse back in the day

@helladankseedco.2411

5 ай бұрын

@@Entername-md1ev Or maybe it is downplayed now and was blown up then...

@retroguy9494

5 ай бұрын

I'm in NJ too and nothing like that ever happened in any of the malls near me! The biggest thing was car theft. You must be near Newark or Elizabeth or Hudson Country or someplace like that. Or perhaps near Camden or the Vineland area.

Sad, I get that not everything can be had in stores but seeing malls slowly dying is sad. I remember buying CD's in the mid-90's and seeing mobs of teens dropped off by their parents walking around for something to do. The other day it was a ghost town (Solomon Pond Mall, Marlborough, Mass) Remembering what stores used to be where back in the day some still survive.

I would kill to have my mall back- Even if we didn't buy anything, being able to walk around and look at everything, eat in the cafeteria, hang out at the arcade, use the massage chairs, all of it was so fun to do with friends! I especially loved sitting under the skylight while it was raining!

It’s essential for any shopping mall now, to stay in business, is to have entertainment areas such as theaters, bowling, skating, kids playground/games, food court, restaurants..etc. The activities that people can’t do it online or from home!

@Melissa0774

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think so too. It used to be back in the day, the stores themselves could serve that function because they had lots of cool stuff out that you could just hang out and play with, even if you didn't intend to buy anything. But I guess it's just not economically viable to have stores like that anymore.

@TheeBlackSilhouette

5 ай бұрын

Yeah when I went to the mall forever ago just to walk around I was very surprised that the movie theater *AND* the RoundOne shutdown;those were the only places dedicated to entertainment instead of shopping.

@kalismols606

5 ай бұрын

You can even do that online now too....uber eats and watch whatever you want

@THE-WAY_THE-TRUTH_THE-LIFE.

5 ай бұрын

Except take theater out for online streaming, and food court and restaurants out for online ordering.

Malls in Florida still booming and they stay crowded especially during the holidays.

@KC-ed1dj

5 ай бұрын

Because y'all need somewhere to run from that overbearing heat. 😄

@NoahJohnson7452

5 ай бұрын

KC Yea we do

@Silver6533

5 ай бұрын

Almost every home or apartment as an air conditioner in Florida. Every building you walk into has and air conditioner. Most vehicles on the road have a working air conditioner. So a mall is not the only place to escape the heat during the summer.@@KC-ed1dj

@Betty-ub1jc

5 ай бұрын

And they don't allow the Homeless to be vagrants there. They also prosecute shoplifting, etc. So you can actually feel safe at the mall in Florida. Thank you Governor Ron Desantis!!!

@kuroihitsuji8644

5 ай бұрын

The Mall of America in Minnesota is also still crowded and booming as usual

The Mall has always been part of my childhood memories every time when me and my family would go shopping for just hang out.

"Outside Dowtown LA"? Puente Hills is like a 20 mile drive from DTLA 🤣

Inside Edition: when’s the last time you went to a mall Me: a week ago

@davidcartagena1272

5 ай бұрын

9 years for me

@simonstevenson6686

5 ай бұрын

One month

@skylarvlogs1511

5 ай бұрын

my ex hasn’t been to one for 12 years 😭

@ngndnd

5 ай бұрын

i actually went to one today (not to shop) and it was so depressing. That mall was always depressing but it used to be packed with people on the weekends before 2020

@i.like.chicken.nuggets.17

5 ай бұрын

well idk about u guys but when i go to the mall its gone back to how it was BEFORE covid...

I miss the mall so much, I'm an 80s baby, so many of my fondest memories were at the mall. I do a majority of my shopping online now, but not really by choice, i developed condition back at the end of 2008 that causes my legs to swell, and in 2016 i suffered a bad fall and now have a bad hip and knee so I'm pretty much homebound except for doctors appointment's, but i would much rather be at the mall, it was the ultimate stress reliever and now i worry that the one mall i have always wanted to visit is going to close before i ever get a chance to go, THE MALL OF AMERICA! I'm only 38 and so far I've lost drive-In movie theaters, dine-in Pizza Huts, Video Stores, and now the Mall.💔

@samuelrebecca9915

5 ай бұрын

I decree and declare healing into your entire body and whatever sicknesses that is bounding you or restricting you for not having your normal life will never have hold on you no more in Jesus mighty name 🙏❤sending hugs and prayers to you..please don't ever give up because you will have those regular times you deserve back 🙏🌹

@duckmercy11

5 ай бұрын

Do you get disability or WFH?

@brit7280

5 ай бұрын

Yes, drive-ins & video stores. Dam I miss those days

@haydenfowle7576

5 ай бұрын

24 hour Walmarts, Classic Cartoon Network and Chinese Buffets

@Brandi_alanaa

5 ай бұрын

In Jesus Name, Amen!!!

Looks like the backrooms. Also thanks inside edition! Ur my news since i dont watch the news and i check inside-editions videos out to get some interesting info. I live in canada but it is nice to hear whats happening in the states and sometimes it relates to the GTA (greater toronto area). So yeah thank you inside.

That's crazy! Had I not watched this video, I would've never known. I live next to an Outlet Mall, and it's busy every day! Especially on weekends, it'd be causing traffic around the area!

We only have 1 mall left where I live in CA, you can thank inflation mainly. Who shops at malls now when most of the state is living paycheck to paycheck ? SMH. Inside edition should've mentioned that.

@romancetips365

5 ай бұрын

Yep, this. I can barely pay my bills and buy food. I haven't bought clothes in years.

@mikejohn0088

5 ай бұрын

Inside Edition is simply more MSM control.

@Wasserkaktus

4 ай бұрын

Bro it's hardly inflation at all: The US has lower inflation rates than most of the World (The bigger issue is that wage raises aren't equaling the inflation rate.). Bigger factors include the proliferation of online shopping and increased isolation.

@Joshy1313

4 ай бұрын

@@romancetips365 same bro.

@Joshy1313

4 ай бұрын

@Wasserkaktus we must not be talking about the same United States of America bro.

Not just online shopping causing this, theirs literally nothing of worth inside malls, how many people r willing to drive long hours just to buy overpriced trash?

@maccoretti51

5 ай бұрын

Why would you drive hours to get to your local mall? 😂

@ChickenLord319

5 ай бұрын

Exactly, a lot of stuff at malls you can find at your local Target or Walmart.

@totally_not_a_robot8098

5 ай бұрын

@@maccoretti51 I'm not from the USA but I just assumed that's what people do, when I went their it was countryside for miles and gas was not cheap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@SUGAR_XYLER

5 ай бұрын

Right, overpriced junk because the rent is too high

@cerisem7727

5 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say there's nothing, since some malls have interesting stores compared to others. But the blame should go to the stores, since most of the stuff they sell is overpriced compared to stores outside the mall. Also the lack of variety in some malls. For example you could find a clothing store with the same items on one end of the mall, and on the opposite you find five stores selling the same things.

I definitely remember monroeville mall and Cary Towne Center and I’m 40 years old now. Really miss the nostalgia of the malls

I do majority of my shopping online (including groceries) and whenever I have to make a return and physically go to the mall, I dread it so much😭😭

This has been happening for years! Why is Inside Edition only talking about this now?

@user-uj5ly1eq5n

5 ай бұрын

No this started happening since Covid or retail theft

@satyendrandonibanerjee8682

5 ай бұрын

@@user-uj5ly1eq5n malls have been dying and closing since the late 2000s and early 2010s. Literally go on KZread and type in abandoned malls, you're going to find videos dating back as early as 2008.

@icarus2k

5 ай бұрын

​@user-uj5ly1eq5n It's not a new revelation, Newsweek declared malls a dying market back in 2008. The fact is online shopping has been taking over rapidly since the dawn of the century, and they were beat down hard by the 2009 recession shortly after. Covid and retail theft just put the final nail in the coffin.

@Pcarnevaaa

5 ай бұрын

Don’t forget inflation, less disposable income, mass shootings in large places, and just being around people is generally unbearable aka Karen’s.

@mikejohn0088

5 ай бұрын

because they were told to now.

I hate online shopping so much. You have to wait so long for stuff to arrive, plus nothing beats walking up to an item and feeling it with your own hands in person. Online shopping will never replace that.

@amethystAnge7

5 ай бұрын

But if we’re being honest, it’s more of a façade for online shopping I think it’s more the economy and where we’re at with our money bills come first

@Alastair_Adana

5 ай бұрын

Also doesn’t help that everything is ridiculously expensive now, and that brick and mortar stores get robbed to death especially in california.

@minxili3317

5 ай бұрын

Ya'll must not have long patience if you can't wait. I've forgotten I have brought stuff online and have packages coming until the packages show up at my doorstep. That's when I remembered I brought stuff online.

@ilttpvvm

5 ай бұрын

The mall in Staten Island, New York is still quite active, thank you very much.

@lillianp-yj6yx

5 ай бұрын

both have their conveniences. I like shopping for clothes, shoes and things like candles and perfumes in the store. I can see, feel and try on the clothing and shoes, smell the perfumes and candles. online is nice when i'm wanting something not available near me

Even Black Friday and Xmas shopping has died down a bit in recent years . Not as hard to get parking or wait in line anymore

This is heartbreaking

Answer: People value convenience more than what malls offer over the e-commerce experience.

@senior_duck968

5 ай бұрын

Fr in person shopping is just so fun

@sparkysmom7149

5 ай бұрын

No. People VALUE THEIR LIVES more than shopping malls. Why go be a target of a psycho in a mall with a gun when you can go online and order what you want without trauma, violence, or death....

@EnchiSaysHi

5 ай бұрын

​@sparkysmom7149 why do anything when you risk dying for exisiting? Stop fear mongering lol

@jasmineh.3002

5 ай бұрын

I simply don't go because of location and it being over priced. I have to choose groceries over clothes

@RudeDude4000

5 ай бұрын

@@sparkysmom7149that’s what happen when you keep voting red.

My local mall is still pretty highly active and I live in a suburb. Ironically, the Walmart at that mall seems to be the only store that has experienced a massive decrease in shoppers. I'm thinking it's because they totally changed the layout of the store that's been there for 20+ years.

Where i live the biggest Mall absolutely works, but it has more than clothing and cosmetics store. There's a food court, a cinema, general stores like Sears, Sanborns and Liverpool, beauty salons, an arcade, even a daycare and a casino. There's also coffee and ice cream shops every few depts, and there's guards always patrolling the place, even armed guards in front of jewelry and electronics stores. Also the place it's important, it's placed between the suburban and central areas of the city and it has several bus stops.

As someone who grew up in Hacienda Heights, it is disappointing and sad to see that this mall has high vacancy. I spent my junior high & high school weekends there.

I love buying things in person more than online shopping

@Diegochicas_

5 ай бұрын

Same, like when i shop for cloths i like shopping in person than online, and most of the time u dont get what u want when u shop online

@escapetherace1943

5 ай бұрын

the thing is people would try on stuff at the malls, then go buy it online and save 5 dollars.... so they use the fitting service and staffing of a store but then do not patron it, and it goes out of business. really sad

Blame flash robbery for this as well

@MikeG82

5 ай бұрын

yeah they don't want to admit the diversity they claim to love is what closed a lot of these malls

@nickerskine6326

5 ай бұрын

and covid.

@jaycensangel.304

5 ай бұрын

​@@MikeG82Here we go🙄

@nachc6459

5 ай бұрын

​@@jaycensangel.304 saying here we go again proves nothing. Say something useful

@KillenEMsoftly

5 ай бұрын

lol not really.. more like covid and a weaker economy

as a teen we ALL go to the mall to hang out with friends and it’s usually packed on the weekends. i live in the east coast of the us

I used to love going to mall with a group of friends, getting some food at the food court, hitting up the arcade and watching a movie to end night.

I miss going to the mall so much, id still go if my town didnt take it away decades ago. Shopping, hanging out, midnight game releases, food.. better times man, better times.

Prices to rent a space is outrageous!!

@elultimo102

5 ай бұрын

The mall sometimes took a percentage of the store's gross receipts.

The same thing happened to mall near me. It declined over the past 20 years and eventually closed in 2020 when COVID hit. It’s now being demolished

A mall here in Glendale AZ was built in 92 and the mall is still booming. It's a great mall

I remember going to the mall as a kid. My mom would take me there for back-to-school clothes shopping, and she'd essentially have to bribe me to do it (clothes shopping gave me a literal headache every time we went). We'd take an hour to get me set for school, and then we'd head over to the mall's bookstore nearby - Walden Bookstore, if y'all remember them. 😅

My father owns a jewelry store in a mall so I have a lot of fond memories growing up visiting him often and even working in one. There’s something so depressing about seeing all those closed shutters…. People’s hopes and dreams were once put in to what lay behind them.

Everybody gangsta till you start hearing heavy rolling sounds approaching you...

I remember in the 90s when there used to be many people in my hometown's mall, with a lot of arcades too. It really was a different generation. The internet really changed things.

Because nobody has any money .

@justayoutuber1906

5 ай бұрын

Uh, the stock market is over 38,000, unemployment is at 3.3%

@victorkd9926

5 ай бұрын

@@justayoutuber1906lmao, two figures which mean absolutely nothing when it comes to financial well-being

@P1995.

5 ай бұрын

A lot of people have become more lazy too. They don’t want to get up and drive and walk around the mall.

I have bought several items of clothes online that did't have the right fit, so I had to go thru the hassle of sending them back, it's better to buy clothes from a mall so you can try them on and see if they have the right fit and look.

Lost our mall 20 years ago. The over head costs were too high.

I wish we could go back to the way things were from 1960 up to 1990, but especially the 60's and 70's. I was born in 1962 and I miss those days so much that it hurts!

I like big malls☹ getting lost throughout every floor just exploring. I remember going with my family on the furniture floor and they had all these beautiful rows of beds and you could just lay on them to test them. Fun times. Curse you online shopping lmao

@MountainClimber247

5 ай бұрын

Same

It’s honestly sad cause recently back in March a mall that’s been apart of my childhood closed. It really does hit once something that was so little in your life closes that meant so much and it’s honestly sad to know how everything is being closed over a convenience

@SimbiAni

5 ай бұрын

my favorite movie theater closed some years ago, but sat empty ever since - until last spring, when the entire remaining standing property was razed which hit me so hard cuz part of me always hoped a miracle would happen & it could've been saved.. 😭

My local mall only gets bigger every year.... I dont even dare to go near it around Christmas anymore. So this is news to me.

Crazy how I got recommended this after talking about this with my mom earlier today

'...Wishing they could go back to the future when there were no ghost malls...' I think he should've said "go back to the past when there were no ghost malls!"

@Xeonerable

5 ай бұрын

Yeah when he said that I was like... **visible confusion** the malls would probably be demolished in the future lmao

@shontoo6979

5 ай бұрын

It’s a reference to the movie, Back to the Future

@MichaelLauzon1976

5 ай бұрын

@@shontoo6979 Thank you, Captain Obvious, I saw the movie in the theatre in 1985 and various times on VHS after that...!

Times change. People buy on line, and teenage thugs congregate at malls, making them unsafe both inside and in parking lots.

@duckmercy11

5 ай бұрын

Nothing to do with it. Teenage thugs were around in the 80s-00s, and crime was worse then.

@stanfordite1

5 ай бұрын

Times don't change anymore. History is done.

@R-py6uf

5 ай бұрын

Yes black teens*

@guerralg63

5 ай бұрын

​@duckmercy11 No, it wasn't. Yes, there have always been thieves and shoplifters, but never as bad as today, and it's only going to get worse.

I love going to the mall and thankfully living where I do the mall is still active with life. I don't really like shopping online, unless I can't find what I need local.

As a teenager of the 70's, the mall was the place to be with friends. Eating, shopping, meeting up with friends. Bustling and thriving with other people doing the same. So sad what is happening. So sad.

Personally I only shop online if it's something I can't normally get in stores, like if something's out of stock, unique, etc.

I actually prefer shopping at the mall compared to online, it's more convenient to try on clothes there. Comparing that to shopping online, then wearing it and returning it if not correct. The worst case is I would need to wait days for the $$ to come back into my wallet/credit card. Might not be a hassle, but if ALL/EVEN MORE malls close, then you're going to wait even LONGER for return processing.

Geez…the Puente Hills mall. I still remember being there in 2012 and the mall was PACKED

Way better this way then when there’s hardly parking and the feeling on anxiety on having soo many people around. The malls close to me still have too much people during the weekend.

Malls started going under before online shopping.

@haydenfowle7576

5 ай бұрын

COVID was responsible too

Shopping online is great but so is shopping in person. I highly doubt that all shopping 🛍️ malls will become ghost towns.

I want to shop at malls but they inflate prices so much compared to the deals I can find online. If it was more expensive online and cheaper in person I would definitely go back to malls.

About 18 miles from where I am there is a small mall that opened back in 1965 that has a capacity of 40 stores and 3 anchor stores. It's been least 3 decades since I been to that mall and last time I heard anything the mall it was at 75% capacity back in first part of 2022.

I'm guessing Bath & Body Works is so resilient because you can't sample smells online

I dont understand why people buy everything online? If it's hard to obtain an item, that's understandable. But when you buy online you pay so much in shipping prices and you have to wait for it to arrive. It's also sad because I remember my mom giving me five or ten dollars when I was younger, and I would go buy things at the mall. Now, a mom just hands their kids the credit card.

@davidrenton

5 ай бұрын

i'm in the UK, i can order something from Amazon at say 7pm , and for a lot of stuff will arrive by noon the next day often free shipping. I live in London, if i drive to central london, that's £20+, it's hard to compete with that. I was buying from Amazon when it was just a book retailer (many people forget that)

@katzgar

5 ай бұрын

anti vaxxers is why

@sdigf3167

5 ай бұрын

Pure laziness.

@truthspeaks281

5 ай бұрын

They give better deals online

@horseface3725

5 ай бұрын

I don't like shopping online either, especially when it comes to buying clothes, but I'm usually forced to do it. The city where I'm in has so many shoplifters and weirdos, the services at stores suck, overcrowded, and they often don't have what I'm looking for. So those problems could also be reasons as to why so many shop online nowadays.

I used to live in Southern California but back in 2017 I read an article in Time magazine that malls just don't attract the foot traffic anymore. A couple of years later I stumbled on a video where someone from UC Berkeley said that there had been an over-saturation of malls. They were being built starting in the 1940, the 1950s, continuing through the '60s, '70s, '80s and then a slow-down in the '90s. The article said that the last mall built in the States was in the late '90s - 1997, I think. The vid I watched said that malls had to be destination places such as the Mall of America in Minneapolis and it showed kids on some kind of carnival ride. But online shopping was the ultimate killer of malls.

My local mall just months ago it was packed with stuff. Food court packed with local stuff and fast food. Tons of shops. Now there’s near nothing

Not just online shopping, but rampant crime likely scares away many as well.

@gsmith6026

5 ай бұрын

Especially when the news shows gangs of people running into stores grabbing everything they can carry and running out, not caring who they knock over and trample in their quest for that 5 Finger Discount.

@trevorjensen2706

5 ай бұрын

@@gsmith6026, exactly.

It’s not a ghost town till the Brady Bunch shows up in a station wagon

I remember when the Puente Hills Mall was a bustling beehive of shopping activity; all it serves as now is a transit bus terminal....

@davidjym

5 ай бұрын

All malls need to have some higher density housing within walking distance to at least encourage more people and energy inside.

Here is Austin TX, an abandoned mall got converted into the least suspected rebirth: a Community College plus a PBS TV station